What impact will the US mid-term elections?

To shed light on the consequences of this setback for Barack Obama and the Democrats in the midterm elections, our correspondent in Washington Stefan Grobe responded to our questions.

Paul McDowell, euronews:

"Regarding President Barack Obama, what will be the impact on the two remaining years?"

Stefan Grobe, euronews correspondent in Washington

"We're going to see two interesting years. First, the fact that a president loses control of Congress during his sixth year in office, it is not unusual. In fact, since the Second World War, there have been four presidents who have served two consecutive terms: Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush. All have lost control of Congress during the sixth year in office. So, historically, it's not extraordinary. What is perhaps unusual this time, or different, is that the era of Reagan or Clinton, the political class was able to get things done because they were able to reach agreements with the majority Congress. Now I really do not see it this time, because the two camps, Democratic and Republican, have radicalized their positions. There is nothing consistent here, and it is difficult to imagine how the two sides can compromise. "

euronews:

"So do you think the deadlock, the government will continue blocking?"

Stefan Grobe:

"Absolutely. The outgoing Congress was the least productive in modern American history. The government has always been divided in the past, during the four years under Obama. Now Republicans will control the Congress as a whole, but it will not change anything. They always find a compromise with Barack Obama, and they do not want to. So what we will possibly see is that some laws may be on trade, immigration and foreign policy, going to the office of President, but he can always refuse to ratify . And moderate Republicans and those on the right wing are already at odds over strategy to deal with the Democrats in the White House. I predict that we will not show a lot of new laws and I think we will witness many obstacles to the approach of presidential elections in 2016. "